Category Archives for "Soap Making"

Our friends Ginger Beer Mike and Vanessa slaughtered some sheep, in a spirit of waste not, want not, they asked me to help make the excess fat into soap. They’d never made soap and wanted an experienced hand on the project. They rendered up the fat themselves and came over to the Frugal house for […]

I’ve got a whole new line of felted soaps in my head, but my DIY wooden soap mould doesn’t give me the shape I need. What I need is round, so I’ve made a mould out of some PVC pipe about 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Using pipe as a mould is super simple. Buy […]

Kiwis, have you been looking for some low grade olive oil for castile or other olive oil rich soap making? Try Matapiro Olive Oil in Hastings. John Arthur of Matapiro contacted me to let me know that they occasionally have pressings that are not up to their multi-award winning culinary standards that would be perfect […]

After you make a few batches of soap, you’ll probably want to move on from shoebox and yogurt container moulds. This weekend, Frugal Man crafted a lovely wooden drop-side mould for me. It easily holds a 4 lb loaf of soap. He used the free plans over at Chestnut Farms. Then he also built me […]

Last week you learned how to wet felt soap to create a lovely soap covered in its own wash cloth/body scrub and a few weeks before, how to make your own castile soap. This week we will take it the next step further and put some 3D needle felting decoration on a previously wet felted […]